Baking chocolate made from purchased chocolate · Pennsylvania

The Hershey Co Hazleton

Hazle Township, PA · ~701 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Hershey Co Hazleton runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Baking chocolate made from purchased chocolate workplace, earning a grade B.

The Hershey Co Hazleton: 2.9 TCR = 70% of Baking chocolate made from purchased chocolate BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Hershey Co Hazleton safety composite

The Hershey Co Hazleton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2022→2024

The Hershey Co Hazleton injury rate improved

The Hershey Co Hazleton's TCR fell 1.6 from 3.6 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.6 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Hazle Township, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 70% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/20
  • PHOTO Hershey - Hazleton P…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~701 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hershey - Hazleton Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Hershey Co Hazleton in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows The Hershey Co Hazleton averages 2.9 TCR (70% of the Baking chocolate made from purchased chocolate BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

The Hershey Co Hazleton TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.2

Where The Hershey Co Hazleton falls in its industry

86 Baking chocolate made from pur establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 20 Baking chocolate made from pur employers in Pennsylvania.

The Hershey Co Hazleton (701 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The Hershey Co Hazleton
The Hershey Co Hazleton (701 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

The Hershey Co Hazleton has more employees than the Baking chocolate made from purchased cho median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.0 1.7 13 0 0
2023 3.1 3.0 22 0 0
2022 3.6 3.2 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · PA · Hazle Township

86 Baking chocolate made from purchased chocolate employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 36 employers in Hazle Township, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Hershey - Hazleton Plant 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abilene 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chris Candies, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CD Investors, LLC/Production Facility 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE First Quality Products 701 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARRISBURG (PAMBG) 701 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Craft Brewery (Samuel Admas PA Brewery) 700 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baptist Homes Society 700 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hazleton Distribution Center 972 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9720 633 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2255 419 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2255 385 FTE
NAT-TCR Lock Sixteen Catering 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Slabe Machine PRoducts 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Headquarters 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 232 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Monroe LA Mill 701 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cambridge Medical Center 701 FTE
NAT-SIZE Memorial Health 701 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheraton Vistana Resort 701 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.